Believe it or now the structure is pretty well thought out. It may  
not be obvious, but documentation should help with this.
On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:47 PM, Mike Kienenberger wrote:
> I took a look at the svn folder layout.
>
> - jpa-chapter-* and pojo are integration tests?  Definitely not
> obvious from the module names.
It is obvious :-) The full path is "itests/jpa-chapter*"
> I also don't understand the difference between assemblies and build- 
> tools.
Assemblies are the release archives in Maven speak. I didn't invent  
it :-) Build tools are used to build all modules. There is nothing  
common between them.
> I see both a modeler and a framework/cayenne-modeler directory.
This is correct. "framework/cayenne-modeler" is a modeler *library*,  
while "modeler/*" are modules serve to produce Modeler *application*  
for a given platform. This distinction was introduced because there  
was no other way to handle this in Maven, but there is still common  
logic behind it.
> I see maven-cayenne-plugin in the framework directory.   Isn't this a
> build-tool/assembly?
No, this is a Maven analog of cgen - i.e. a plugin that we release to  
the users.
> I see the regression/profiler in build tools.   How is that different
> from integration tests as a separate directory.
Regression profiler doesn't belong anywhere really. It is probably  
the only module with a randomly chosen location waiting its time. It  
is excluded from the main build anyways.
> There's no breakdown between JPA-specific pieces and classic Cayenne.
There is.
> There's also no break out of the ROP stuff.
Correct.
> Since these various pieces are in separate modules, I would think a  
> module description
> would keep them separate as well. I'm sure it's a matter of  
> perspective.
I don't completely follow, do you mean we need more fine-grained  
modules? I don't disagree, but there are two more dimensions (in  
addition to the "logical split" dimension) that make it harder: the  
need to maintain JDK 1.4/1.5 split and the need to maintain user vs.  
developer view ("unpublished" vs "published").
In fact I proposed in the past to split a few secondary modules for  
ease of reuse (connection pool and wocompat). I was going to mention  
that separate from this discussion.
Andrus
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